If you travel with peace in your heart even in the middle of a war you will not come to harm.
Sayings of the wise:
I do not live from your love, nor die from your hate.
I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not here to live up to mine, therefore we should travel this planet in peace knowing we are doing what we are to do.
It's funny because she Travel to Isreal a few times the first was a time of peace and it was beautiful she said, then her and my grandfather went back and war broke out my grandmother and grandfather walked down the streets of Israel as tanks gunned people down, not know where to go or what to do, they were from america and so they hugged each other and walked down the center of the main street. She said she seen a 10 year old girl gunned down she spoke of bullets flying past her head, My grand parents returned home unharmed, but she said she felt God told her to observe it all. My grandmother was very old when she was murdered... Someone broke into her house and and came home and walked in on them, they got scared and hit her, Her fraile body from aging the blow broke the connection between her spine and her brain. We found her in the door way of her house. We also found out who did it and they got off on a lack of proff charge, people seen them in the area and knocking on my grandmother's door,what no one seen was them breaking in to her house so they got off. I come from a mid-class family, but I played on the other side of the tracks growing up. my grand parents work so hard to raise us right. My brothers and I stayed on the FBI most wanted list for years!
I can tell you the day, time and feeling in detail that I changed my life, I was literally walking down the street when I just felt something. I stopped, I turned and walked around the block to my house and from the moment on I have never even stepped into the gray areas of life, I try to do what is right. I was 24 when I turned for no other reason than God's call on my life. I had my grand mother till I was 32. Ablessing. We didscare the people and stilldo here and there.In fact i wen to the office of one of them when I came to Colorado, took them a minute to figureit out, but when they did, boyeee.... I tell you Knowing EarlieMay Henderson, I can not walk around wishing something on these people. My Grandparents were A Foundation in Colorado, They were Prominent People not because of wealth as far as money, but wealth of familt, friends and Community. My grand father is in Pictures with M.L.K. on the march on Washington, I have a pictures of M.L.K. holding me when I was a baby in the Church my grand parents raised me in. Steadmen Brought Oprha to the house to meet my grandmother, Funny story I could tell, but I won't...
You know all I have are these memories of them and Pictures I keep in my Bible. Dr. Cecil Glenn wrote a book dedicated to his grandmother, He is the father of the Guys from Tag team. While in Collage I was at an Award Ceremony for Community service while in School. Dr.Glenn was speaking, I remembered him talking about his grandmother looking dead @ me the whole time. My Grandmother was still living them.
When it was time for me to walk and get my award,Dr,Glenn had such a smile on hisface,I never met him before so I didn't understand. He passed me my Plaque and said hold on one moment Henderson! I must have had a strange look on my face cause he followed with, This is the book I wrote for my Grandmother, Give this to Mrs. Henderson and tell her She is loved and thank you for all she has done! I remember reading the book all the way home tearfully... It was an honor to give it to my grandmother. This sense of honor has kept me walking away from trouble,yes sometimes it hard but I do my best. I use to be a pro Kickboxer and I found the more I learned the more I didn't want to fight, Not in the ring, not practice, not on the streets. In my training just for practice I would fight 5 to 8 men mostly musel with a weight of 185 or more, all at the same time. I never lost in the ring, I never lost in practice and I have never been knocked down! So yes i can hold my own. Trained UFC guys back in the day... I miss being in that kind of shape, but it also made people want to test me, I could not bare anything happening to my grandmother because I was hurt,, so I gave the life up. To honor not just her but my whole family name! my grand father Robet L/Henderson, remember than name! He was the strongest man I ever met! A Good man.If I could only be an ounce of what he was boy!
well, I am me and he was he... they gave me so much. So much Value in my life that I really didn't understand tillI reached an age I could really understand it! I get it now, asmany of us say!hahaha!!!
So I thought maybe I should just share a little with the world about me, Maybe give a little of that life saving love I got back... They are the reason I am the way I am, Who I am and what I am today. I would not be here, if it was not for my Grand Father Firm Back hand and My Grandmothers loving voice. I will see them again, and I hope to have lived such a life that when I stand before them, even if I did not do it all, but they will now how much I love them! So I guess I am going to start a new blog called words of the Wise, I want all of you who has a story, a word, a hope in your darkness to come and join me and celebrate the one who blessed you with your Wisdom.
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